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The 2023 edition of Fantastic Fest is packed with great genre titles from around the world. Alongside some of the hottest hits from the festival circuit this year, it has some enticing premières lined up, and a handful of cult oldies which you may never have seen before but probably should.
The festival runs from 21 to 28 September.
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Fantastic Latest Reviews
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave.
Miners are forced to take a professor underground with them, to take samples for his measurements. After a landslide prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, unknowingly waking up a bloodthirsty creature.
About a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. When they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.
One winter in Kibune, Kyoto, people find themselves stuck in a two minute time loop. As others try to work together to find out what's going on, one woman finds herself increasingly isolated.
An experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul.
An American family fulfils their dream of moving back to the old country after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway.
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